THE WEEK’S HORROR HEADLINES (16th-23rd February)

Not got time to trawl the web for all the top horror news of the last week? Well allow me to give you a bite-size breakdown of the all biggest nightmarish news!

1. JUDITH O'DEA’S BARBARA TO RETURN IN THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: GENESIS

Amazing casting news from V2 Pictures’ unofficial Night of the Living Dead sequel, NotLD: Genesis, Matt Cloude is bringing back star of the classic original movie, Judith O’Dea as Barbara.

I love Romero‘s original trilogy and news doesn’t get much more exciting for me. What do you think, stunt casting or cool homage?
Read Bloody Disgusting's story here.

2. NEILL BLOMKAMP’S ALIEN SEQUEL IS COMING

20th Century Fox has reached a deal with Neill Blomkamp to bring his Alien film to the big screen! It will be developed separately to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel and is a sci-fi fan’s dream. 

Blomkamp had Sigourney Weaver onboard when he first touted the idea of this project, so it will be interesting to see if she is still set to star.

Great news!

Read Variety’s story here.

3. WOLF CREEK WEB SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT

Video on demand service Stan is developing a six-part web series based on Aussie horror flick Wolf Creek!
Star of Wolf Creek and its sequel, John Jarratt is expected to return as movie madman Mick Taylor in the Screentime and Emu Creek Pictures production.

I dug both Wolf Creek movies, so if this brings the extreme down and dirty nature of those to small screen, I am DOWN with this. 

‘Welcome to Australia, cocksucker!’

4. CHILD’S PLAY 7…

Do you like Chucky? Want to see more of the world’s favourite Good Guy gone bad?

Of course you do!

With that in mind, I think you may well like what series maestro Don Mancini had to say on his twitter feed recently…

5. ZOMBIE MUTANT NAZI FLYING SHARKS

Honestly, I’m not making this up. Marctropolis’ upcoming Sky Sharks is poised to make Sharknado look a bit tame. The official synopsis follows:

A team of Arctic geologists stumble across an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis developed an incredible and brutal secret weapon during the final months of WW2 .

Deep in the ice, they accidentally awake a deadly army of flying zombie sharks ridden by genetically mutated, undead super-humans, who are unleashed into the skies, wreaking their bloodthirsty revenge on any aircraft that takes to the air.

An elite task force is assembled to take on this deadly threat and stop the Sky Sharks from conquering the air, but as time runs out, the task force realises they will have to fight fire with fire, and the stage is set for the greatest flying super-mutant zombie shark air battle the world has ever seen....

Go to their site here.

6. NEW THIS WEEK

This week sees the UK cinema release of what is set to be the biggest horror film of the year, It Follows.

Read my review here, then be sure to check it out this weekend.

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Until next time, I hope you enjoyed your stay.